Paging Paul Long (and anyone else who has suggestions)

[mt_hangglider]

Paul (and anyone else) - I'd like to hear what you suggest to deal with this particular issue. The photos will explain more than words here. In short, the issue here is the knife that I was making this sheath for is no bigger than a steak knife in width. That means a pretty narrow sheath. I sewed the belt loop as far to the left as I could anticipating not having a lot of room for between it and where I was stitching the edge. You can see that my Cobra Class 4 didn't like having that belt loop where it is and hence I have great stitching on the top and the needle went through at an odd angle at the bottom. The thread would also have been dyed brown to match the belt loop had it turned out. The only answer I've thought of is to decrease the width of the belt loop and increase the width of the sheath giving me more real estate to sew my edge without the loop interfering. However, as narrow as this knife is, it would end up being kind of a silly size (width) for that small of knife. One could sew the back side but then the stitches would not look real nice on the front. I could hand stitch it but would really like to avoid that. Is there something simple I'm just not thinking of here? Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

I did have one success this weekend though, I made a valet tray for a knifemaker friend with his logo carved on it. Came out real nice.

 

[sheathmaker]

Okay, we all have these "learning epiphanies" and you just did. NEVER leave any less than a FULL 3/4" room for your Cobra 4. The belt loop on that sheath could be a full 1/4" more narrow and still look okay and function perfectly. Also you could (in addition) increase the width of the sheath to give you even more room and fill the dead space inside with a wider welt. Both tricks work because I have had to do it. I don't know of any way to effectively salvage what you have presented.

The tray is pure outstanding!

Paul

 

[mt_hangglider]

Okay, we all have these "learning epiphanies" and you just did. NEVER leave any less than a FULL 3/4" room for your Cobra 4. The belt loop on that sheath could be a full 1/4" more narrow and still look okay and function perfectly. Also you could (in addition) increase the width of the sheath to give you even more room and fill the dead space inside with a wider welt. Both tricks work because I have had to do it. I don't know of any way to effectively salvage what you have presented.

The tray is pure outstanding!

Paul

Thank you Paul! I greatly appreciate your insight and affirmation of what I suspected needs to be done differently. It definitely was a learning experience and I'll be paying much closer attention to spacing choices on future projects. I also appreciate the kind words regarding the tray! It was a stamping marathon. I figure I have a solid 15 hours into that one.

 

[Eaglestroker]

I used to have this problem a lot with Threespersons' style holsters because it gets within a close proximity of the fold-over loop. The easiest way to solve it while maintaining the same line is to leave 1/2"+ additional material hanging off the edge. What's typically happening right here is because of the angle the belt loop adds, the back side of the project falls into that area the walking foot is and the needle blows out through the edge. When I'm trying to maintain a very tight line I'll leave that extra tab and use the edge guide as a 'stop' to keep the project square against the edge. After I'm done I'll cut the edge back to normal level then edge and burnish. This is the only time I don't burnish before stitching.

Always worse when it happens on something nice, which is usually when I had that problem.

 

[ANovinc]

Love that tray. It's pure awesomeness!

 

[mt_hangglider]

I used to have this problem a lot with Threespersons' style holsters because it gets within a close proximity of the fold-over loop. The easiest way to solve it while maintaining the same line is to leave 1/2"+ additional material hanging off the edge. What's typically happening right here is because of the angle the belt loop adds, the back side of the project falls into that area the walking foot is and the needle blows out through the edge. When I'm trying to maintain a very tight line I'll leave that extra tab and use the edge guide as a 'stop' to keep the project square against the edge. After I'm done I'll cut the edge back to normal level then edge and burnish. This is the only time I don't burnish before stitching.

Always worse when it happens on something nice, which is usually when I had that problem.

Thanks for your reply and helpful advice! I hear ya on it being something nice thing. I lined this with Kangaroo which is not cheap and of course the outside was Shark which is also not cheap. Never mind I had spent a better part of my Sunday already making it when this happened. But such is life and I did some redesigning last night and think the second try will be a success. Will be sure to post back when I have it done.

Love that tray. It's pure awesomeness!

Thank you! The kind words are much appreciated!

 

[John A. Larsen]

That tray is spectacular. John

 

[Horsewright]

Wow that tray is cool! Well done. Paul got ya hooked up on that sewing deal. I have a design where I struggled with the same thing for a while till I got it figured. Sorry didn't get back to ya on that email. Been out of town and off line but this guy was on my line>